Finished reading Never let me go Monday, read Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale after that and read The reluctant fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid yesterday. Currently reading Alias Grace by Atwood.

WHICH IS MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT SOME PEOPLE

Since megavideo is all "You've watched 72 minutes, please wait 54 minutes or sign up" so I can't watch The City for an hour, I've decided to finally post a list of some of the books I've bought since moving to London (won't mention the ones from the post back in August);

Margaret Atwood - The tent

Margaret Atwood - Surfacing

Joyce Carol Oates - Rape a love story

Doris Lessing - The diaries of Jane Somers

Marilyn French - The women's room

Sylvia Plath - Ariel

Richard Yates - The easter parade

Richard Yates - Young hearts crying

Iain Banks - The wasp factory

Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem (a report on the banality of evil)

Michael Chabon - Wonder boys

Michael Ende - The neverending story

A.S. Byatt - The Oxford book of English short stories

Sebastian Faulks - Charlotte Gray

Laurence Rees - Auschwitz

Laurence Rees - The Nazis

George Orwell - Why I write

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never let me go

Bought some of these for school, but will keep them regardless (for background: dropped out of uni. Cue Grease song, "no graduation day for you!") Anyway, I will incorporate those books into my own collection. Books that did not make the cut: Pride and prejudice and Trainspotting. God, I hate those books. Anyway, for some reason I haven't been reading as much as I normally do since moving here. Makes me feel lost. Have read Bodily harm by Margaret Atwood, The tent by the same author, Rape a love story and The falls by Oates, Auschwitz by Laurence Rees and a lot of the short stories from the Lorrie Moore book. Reading Ishiguro's Never let me go now; it's good but so different from what I usually go for. Feel like I wanna read some Joan Didion but, to my great shock and surprise, can't find any of her books at Waterstones. Sad.

"Whose life am I living? Whose life am I failing to live?
- The tent, Margaret Atwood

NEITHER OF THE GRIMES SISTERS WOULD HAVE A HAPPY LIFE, AND LOOKING BACK IT ALWAYS SEEMED THAT THE TROUBLE BEGAN WITH THEIR PARENTS' DIVORCE

Currently reading The easter parade by Richard Yates. Sorry about the lack of updates, will write more about what books I've read/bought on Wednesday.

Finished reading Bodily harm a couple days ago, reading The falls by Joyce Carol Oates now. Bodily harm was amazing. Atwood is just so fucking great.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS AND HOME ISN'T SO MUCH THAT SHE KNOWS NOBODY AS THAT NOBODY KNOWS HER. IN A WAY SHE'S INVISIBLE. IN A WAY SHE'S SAFE.

Long time no see book blog, but I moved to London about two weeks ago and have been busy, and by busy I mean I've mostly been buying books. So, list of books bought:

John Fowles - The magus
Georges Perec - Life a user's manual
Margaret Atwood - Bodily harm
Margaret Atwood - The handmaid's tale
Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood - The year of the flood
Iris Murdoch - A word child
Truman Capote - In cold blood
Françoise Sagan - Bonjour tristesse & A certain smile
Moshin Hamid - The reluctant fundamentalist
Joyce Carol Oates - We were the Mulvaneys
Joyce Carol Oates - The falls (bought this one in Örebro, but haven't mentioned it on this blog before so might as well do it now.)
Joyce Carol Oates - The female of the species
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's diary
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones: The edge of reason
Lorrie Moore - The collected stories

Currently reading Atwood's Bodily harm.

SKYLER HELP ME SKYLER I AM SO LONELY IN THIS PLACE SKYLER I AM SO AFRAID

I'm currently reading My sister, my love by Joyce Carol Oates. Here's what The New York Times said about it; I don't really agree at all but because I'm in such a bad fucking mood right now, I have no energy to go into why I disaagree with Sarah Churchwell.